Environment
Our programmes range from developing better plastics to understanding the illegal wildlife trade, and from accelerating the adoption of renewable energy to better management of the high seas. Conserving the natural systems on which all human life depends requires action on many fronts, and we provide new understanding, insights and ideas to ensure that solutions to pressing environmental challenges can be found.
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Last LEAP Conference highlights importance of food research communities
The Oxford Martin Programme on the Future of Food recently celebrated the last Wellcome-funded LEAP conference. The conference showcased novel research findings, examining the relationship between livestock, the environment and people; and brought together a strong community of researchers in these fields.
Enforce net zero with global ‘ground rules,’ say Oxford academics
Academics at the Oxford Martin Programme on Net Zero Regulation and Policy have called for rigorous net zero ‘ground rules’ – encompassing laws, regulation and policy – to be implemented and enforced across the world, in an article published in Nature Climate Change.
The just transition in South Africa: jobs and livelihoods in the coal industry
Our programme on the Future of Development collaborated with researchers from the Development Policy Research Unit in the University of Cape Town to conduct an in-depth analysis of the coal labour market in South Africa.
Oxford researchers launch updated carbon offsetting principles
An interdisciplinary team of Oxford University researchers - including those affiliated to the Oxford Martin School - have today released an update to flagship guidance on credible and net zero aligned carbon offsetting used by hundreds of organisations since its publication in 2020.
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Shifting the dial on money’s climate impact
The climate crisis gives investors and shareholders an ethical conundrum - should they divest from fossil fuel companies? And if they don’t, how should they engage with the firms in which they remain invested in order to drive a transition toward more climate-conscious practices? And, particularly at a time of turmoil in international energy markets, how can they resolve the age-old trilemma between energy security, affordability and environmental impact?
The Oxford Martin Net Zero Carbon Investment Initiative, which ran from 2015 to 2021, was established to answer these questions, and to help investors accelerate the transition to a zero carbon economy. This is the story of its work, and its impact.
forthcoming events
'Historical research in the time of the Anthropocene: can climate data help us read the past (and, if so, how)?' with Prof Nicola Di Cosmo (Online only)
8th May 2024: 5:00pm
Book launch: 'Long problems: climate change and the challenge of governing across time' with Prof Thomas Hale
23rd May 2024: 6:00pm
Registration Required
'Why hydrogen is of strategic importance to scale-up the energy transition' with Dirk Smit
28th May 2024: 5:00pm
Registration Required
people
View allYadvinder Malhi
Professor of Ecosystem Science
Myles Allen
Professor of Geosystem Science
Jim Hall
Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks
E.J. Milner-Gulland
Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity
Michael Obersteiner
Director of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford
Nathalie Seddon
Professor of Biodiversity
Cameron Hepburn
Battcock Professor of Environmental Economics
Lavanya Rajamani
Professor of International Environmental Law
Richard Bailey
Professor of Environmental Systems
Radhika Khosla
Associate Professor in the School of Geography and the Environment
Hannah Ritchie
Senior Researcher and Deputy Editor and Science Outreach Lead at Our World in Data
Thom Wetzer
Founding Director of the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme
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